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The 5' boundary of somatic hypermutation in a V kappa gene is in the leader intron.
European journal of immunology - 1 Jun 1994
Rada C, González-Fernández A, Jarvis J M, Milstein C
Abstract excerpt
The maturation of the immune response involves the hypermutation of antibody genes and the selection of B cells expressing receptors with improved antigen binding properties. Somatic hypermutation of antibody genes is targeted to a small region approximately 1 kb surrounding the rearranged V gene. The precise definition of the 5' limit is not yet clear since the data base of somatic mutations upstream of the V...
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